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The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), through the Regional Agency for Agriculture and Food (RAAF), has issued a Call for Proposals from companies, boards, agencies or commissions capable of providing food storage for the West African Regional Food Security Reserve. The European Union is supporting the West African Food Security Storage Support Project…
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The Association for International Agriculture and Rural Development is taking fellowship applications for students attending both the AIARD Annual Conference (June 5-7) and the Future Leaders Forum in Washington, D.C. Fellowships are made possible by USAID support and are awarded on a competitive basis to students who have a demonstrated interest in international agriculture and rural development.
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Making use of the training he received through the Peanut & Mycotoxin Innovation Lab, Ethiopian graduate student Abdi Hassen recently taught the aflatoxin detection technique he learned in the U.S. to supervisors and colleagues in his home country.
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The deadline is approaching to submit a paper or poster for the 2016 American Peanut Research and Education Society (APRES) meeting in July. APRES members who wish to present original papers or posters at the 2016 APRES Annual Meeting should submit an abstract online by March 31 at www.apresinc.com. The 48th Annual Meeting will be…
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David Bertioli, a plant geneticist from the Universidade de Brasília who is working at the University of Georgia, will deliver a lecture Wednesday on the genome sequences of peanut’s diploid ancestors. While the lecture will be presented in Athens, Ga., researchers around the state and across the globe can listen in. Working with the International…
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Research4Life, an organization that offers free or low-cost access to academic and peer-reviewed papers, is holding a webinar to show users how they can use the service. The Agricultural Information Management Standards (AIMS) Community in cooperation with Research4Life is holding “Research4Life: the library that opens doors” in English on March 17 at 11 a.m. (Rome…
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The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) is hiring a managing director for the Aflasafe Technology Transfer Program in Africa.The managing director will work with 10 to 20 professionals across 11 African countries. Aflasafe is a relatively new biocontrol product IITA developed in cooperation with the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), which reduces the…
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